I am brand new to scrapbooking and have a question?
Actually I am making greeting cards and I have to make a lot so am on a budget. I used a medium weight drawing paper and Elmer’s glue to add cutouts from scrapbooking papers to pull them together. But now I hate them! The paper buckled and the glue is messy. If I need a specific glue or paper please tell me. And the cards are just too flimsy.
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You are not using the right materials. You must use cardstock. drawing paper, as you see, doesn’t work. Elmer’s glue is not right for this project. Use a two way tape runner for adhesive or a Zig 2-way glue pen. see site below. all scrapbooking supplies are on sale at JoAnn’s
Hobby lobby has good prices on scrapbooking supplies too.
You do need card stock weight paper for a base. I like to up-cycle, so i use a lot of the junk mail that slides through my mail slot every day. You can recover old greeting cards too. I love double stick tape, and I use lots of just plain old glue sticks. (Rarely ever Elmer’s, it’s too wet) To use a glue stick properly, take what you want to glue and lay it face down on some waist paper. I use some junk mail, esp. old catalogs. Rub glue over the entire surface including the edges and corners. Don’t over do it with thickness, cover the whole thing lightly. Lay it on the surface you want to glue it to. Using a piece of waxed paper smooth it down and rub the entire surface. Works like a charm. Check out card making books from your local library, and go to the local book store to look at paper crafting magazines for ideas. My fave is Paper Crafts. Look for color schemes and design layouts. Avoid projects that just display the newest line of product. Too expensive.
You could use stationery/printer paper to make cards if you wanted to print something from the computer on them instead of gluing things to them. Fold an A4 page in half width wise, then in half length wise, to get a card with a bit of extra strength than a single sheet of paper.
You could decorate with light items only on such a card. Use similar weight paper such as wrapping paper shapes etc, and do stick to using faster drying glue that you can apply thinly, as suggested.
I also prefer using cardstock to make cards, and some hobby stores sell suitably weighted packs of card blanks and envelopes just for cardmakers. They are inexpensive.
There are stacks of techniques you can use to make cards. Here is a page linking you to many such projects:
http://www.papercraftcentral.com/cardmaking.html
This page suggests using lots of recyclable products in your cardmaking:
http://www.papercraftcentral.com/recyclable-products.html
You may also like to learn more about the various adhesives used in cardmaking. Here is some information about that:
http://www.papercraftcentral.com/papercraft-adhesives.html
I hope this helps you get the effects you want